edX is a joint partnership between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Harvard University to...
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edX is a joint partnership between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and Harvard University to begin providing global, free-open-source, online learning content and courses offerred at M.I.T. and Harvard, Course content will include "self-paced learning, online discussion groups, wiki-based collaborative learning, assessment of learning as a student progresses through a course, and online laboratories." Certificates of course completion will be offered to those students that succeed in completing all course work. Data collected from online learning courses will be studied to help make improvements to the Online Learning and Teaching platform. Their first course: M.I.T's "Introduction to Circuits and Electronics" began earlier this year with more courses to follow.

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Among the projects that the Foundation has underwritten in whole or in part are MIT's Open Courseware program, which has...
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Among the projects that the Foundation has underwritten in whole or in part are MIT's Open Courseware program, which has published virtually all MIT courses on the program's Web site; Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative, a highly interactive approach designed to measure the effectiveness of the teaching; African Virtual University's development of an open educational resources strategy, which provides digital and printable material to train teachers in sub-Saharan Africa; and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that helps creators of intellectual property preserve a range of rights while sharing content. This website also features the following: images, links to related material, teacher's guide and glossary terms. For more information on the Hewlett Foundation please go to: http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/OER/

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